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Kimmel’s Wife Reveals Why ABC was Right to Cancel the Show

&NewLine;<p>In a recent interview&comma; Molly McNearney&comma; the wife and senior writer&sol;executive producer for late-night comedian&lpar;&quest;&rpar; Jimmy Kimmel&comma; inadvertently revealed the reasons ABC was correct in pulling him off the air – and wrong in reinstating his show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>By way of background&colon; The specific reason for pulling Kimmel off the air was his offensive and dishonest comments regarding the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk—claiming that the killer was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;one of them”&comma; a MAGA guy&period;&nbsp&semi; Of course that was totally untrue – a huge lie&period;&nbsp&semi; &lpar;I wonder if his wife wrote that part of the monologue&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But that was only the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back&period;&nbsp&semi; Among the underlying reasons for cancelling the show were Kimmel’s poor ratings&comma; high costs &lpar;big money for both Jimmy and Mrs&period; Kimmel&rpar;&comma; and an extreme political bias that was running afoul of many viewers&period;&nbsp&semi; After almost 23 years&comma; Kimmel’s monologues and guests were getting stale – as were those of the other late-night comics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>ABC put the show back on the air &&num;8212&semi; caving under enormous pressure from the left-wing political&comma; news and entertainment establishment&period;&nbsp&semi; The reaction from the left was understandable&period;&nbsp&semi; Kimmel was not a late-night comedian in the tradition of Johnny Carson – for whom humor was the first priority&period;&nbsp&semi; Kimmel weaponized comedy as a propaganda vehicle against President Trump and the entire Republican Party&period;&nbsp&semi; He was a mainstay propagandist for Democrats and the left-wing establishment&period;&nbsp&semi; He was their guy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Rather than making comedy his first priority&comma; Kimmel put political bias ahead of all other considerations – fairness&comma; professionalism&comma; and the network’s policies and interests&period;&nbsp&semi; This is something a general audience network should not – and cannot – allow&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; The proof is in the ratings&period;&nbsp&semi; &lpar;Which have not improved despite the massive amount of publicity Kimmel received over his temporary removal from the airwaves&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Even worse was the fact that Kimmel and his wife were a team &&num;8212&semi; essentially a very high-paid propaganda team for the radical left&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; He read the material on camera that she wrote in the back office as the head writer&period;&nbsp&semi; As executive producer&comma; she was also responsible for the selection of guests&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>How do we know about her obsession and how it influenced &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jimmy Kimmel Live&excl;”&quest;&nbsp&semi; She poured it all out in an emotionally frazzled interview with the left-wing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We Can Do Hard Things” podcast&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to McNearney&comma; she made it a habit to shoot off endless emails to Trump-supporting family and friends &&num;8212&semi; imploring them not to vote for him&period;&nbsp&semi; &nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;She was behaving like a woman possessed – suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She said that she was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;betrayed” by her friends and family members – as if they were obligated or pledged to be loyal to her narrow political views&period;&nbsp&semi; She said her emails were ignored by 90 percent of the recipients &&num;8212&semi; but that she received &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;insane” replies from the few&period;&nbsp&semi; &lpar;So&comma; in her mind&comma; you are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;insane” if you disagree with her extreme anti-Trump&comma; anti-Republican views&period;&nbsp&semi; Who is really the insane one here&quest;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>McNearney claims to have been badly hurt by the reactions to her barrage of emails&period;&nbsp&semi; So much so that she cut ties with both family and friends&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it&comma;” she lamented&period;&nbsp&semi; Now she says she aligns with family and friends who agree with her politically&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&lpar;I have to digress here&period;&nbsp&semi; I have relatives and very good friends who hate Trump&period; In some cases&comma; we have never agreed on politics for decades&period;&nbsp&semi; But&&num;8230&semi; I have never had a broken friendship or been alienated from family members over political opinions&period;&nbsp&semi; Not even in these days of divisiveness and emotional overcharge&period;&nbsp&semi; And yes &&num;8230&semi; we even discuss and debate politics – with civility and respect&comma; and a bit of humor&period;&nbsp&semi; To me&comma; there is something emotionally wrong with folks who break off from friends and family over political opinion&period; Whew&excl;&nbsp&semi; Got that off my chest&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It was in that interview that McNearney made a very important inadvertent &&num;8212&semi; but very telling &&num;8212&semi; admission&period;&nbsp&semi; She was angry with her family members and friends because they did not support her husband&comma; <strong>who was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;out there fighting this man &lbrace;Trump&rcub;”&period;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;strong>&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;There you have it&period; She and her husband were out there in full battle gear fighting Trump – using the show as their weapon&period;&nbsp&semi; The so-called comedy show was merely a front&period;&nbsp&semi; Their <strong>primary mission<&sol;strong> was to defeat Trump&period;&nbsp&semi; McNearney underscored her bias saying that in view of her husband’s feud with Trump&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;them &lbrack;her friends and family&rsqb; voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me &&num;8230&semi;”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In an example of her irrational mindset&comma; she said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;it is not just Republican versus Democrat with me” – and then immediately proceeded to rampage against the entire Republican Party&period;&nbsp&semi; She admitted to being &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;in constant conflict and angry all the time” at family members &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;for helping to elect Trump” – arrogantly calling them &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;deliberately misinformed&period;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It is disturbing that a person so obviously unhinged – by her own admission – should have such enormous influence on what the American people see and hear&period;&nbsp&semi; Politically&comma; the Jimmy-Molly partnership is a serious cancer on television journalism and entertainment&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>McNearney’s interview with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We Can Do Hard Things” seemed more like a conversation that would take place in a psychiatrist’s office &&num;8212&semi; and probably should have&period;&nbsp&semi; It came across as a cry for help&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In view of McNearney’s recent public comments&comma; ABC should revisit its decision and again remove &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jimmy Kimmel Live&excl;” from the airwaves&period;&nbsp&semi; Or at least they should rename it as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jimmy Kimmel Lies&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>So&comma; there &OpenCurlyQuote;tis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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